News of drug trafficking

How Brazil's Javari Valley became a criminal haven

14-06-2022 14:18 The Javari Valley is one of the remotest places on Earth, a vast expanse of thick jungle in northwestern Brazil near the Peruvian and Colombian borders. It is also a haven for drug-trafficking and environmental crimes.

Drug Trafficking

Paraguay's slow slide into a state held hostage to drug-trafficking

02-06-2022 13:03 The murders of two Paraguayan officials in as many weeks have sent a disturbing signal that parts of the South American country are falling under the influence — and bullets — of organised crime and drug-traffickers.

EDITORIAL

Could opium be the opium of the masses?

21-05-2022 06:00 In order to overcome the widespread perception that they are hopelessly abstract, institutions need to establish a connection with current problems and everyday life to become established again.

Drug-trafficking allegations

Honduras ex-president Hernández to be extradited to the US over drug-trafficking

28-03-2022 21:44 Honduras' Supreme Court authorises extradition to the United States of former president Juan Orlando Hernández on drug-trafficking charges.

Violence in Latin America

Mutilated bodies, gang wars shock once-peaceful Ecuador

03-03-2022 13:50 An intensifying drug war has shocked once-peaceful Ecuador with scenes of horrific violence.

CRIME & SECURITY

Authorities identify substance cut with ‘contaminated cocaine’ that killed victims

12-02-2022 08:55 ‘Laced cocaine’ that killed 24 people in Buenos Aires Province was cut with carfentanil, a derivative of fentanyl and a powerful opiate.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Honduras political crisis deepens ahead of president-elect's swearing-in

25-01-2022 18:18 Argentina's Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner due to attend president-elect Xiomara's Castro's swearing-in ceremony in two days.

DRUG-TRAFFICKING

Russian court jails four in 2018 Argentine embassy luggage cocaine case

20-01-2022 14:36 A Russian court on Thursday sentenced four men to lengthy jail terms for trying to smuggle nearly 400 kilogrammes of cocaine in suitcases from the Russian Embassy in Argentina.

CRIME & SECURITY

Ecuador's president declares state of emergency over drug violence

19-10-2021 09:13 Guillermo Lasso declares a state of emergency in the country grappling with a surge in drug-related violence and orders mobilisation of police and military.

COURTS, CRIME & SECURITY

Rosario drug gang leader given 22-year jail term in seventh trial

01-10-2021 20:57 Ariel Máximo ’Guille’ Cantero, head of Los Monos drug gang, convicted for instigating seven attacks on judicial buildings, homes of prosecutors and judges.

DRUG VIOLENCE IN ROSARIO

Aníbal Fernández hints at measures to tackle drug violence surge in Rosario

27-09-2021 13:49 Security Minister Aníbal Fernández says "important announcements" are on the way to tackle uptick in drug-related violence in Rosario.

LONG READ

Colombia's illicit coca economy helps communities thrive

03-09-2021 00:01 In the mountains and jungles of southwestern Colombia, peasants and migrantstoil determinedly in fields of coca despite the dangers and persecution they suffer.

FEATURE

Life in the crossfire of Venezuela's slums

26-07-2021 13:20 Confrontations between criminal gangs and security forces in some poor neighbourhoods of the Venezuelan capital have left locals fearing for their lives.

FARC

Colombia militant jailed for 28 years for Ecuador press murders

11-06-2021 18:53 Gustavo Angulo Arboleda, also known as "Cherry", confessed to abducting and killing of two journalists and their driver on the border between Ecuador and Colombia.

POLICE OPERATION

At least 25 killed in police drug raid in Rio slum, says Brazilian media

06-05-2021 15:45 A massive police operation against drug-traffickers in a Rio de Janeiro favela Thursday left at least 24 suspects and a policeman dead, according to reports.

CRIME & SECURITY

Crime spirals out of control in troubled Rosario

05-10-2020 00:01 Rosario, Argentina’s third-largest city, has been suffering for years from escalating violence and the proliferation of drug gangs.

HUMAN RIGHTS

United Nations condemns spike in Colombia 'massacres'

18-08-2020 08:46 The United Nations peace mission in Colombia condemns a spiral of violence engulfing the country, saying it had documented 33 massacres so far this year.

News of drug trafficking

How Brazil's Javari Valley became a criminal haven

Paraguay's slow slide into a state held hostage to drug-trafficking

Could opium be the opium of the masses?

Honduras ex-president Hernández to be extradited to the US over drug-trafficking

Mutilated bodies, gang wars shock once-peaceful Ecuador

Authorities identify substance cut with ‘contaminated cocaine’ that killed victims

Honduras political crisis deepens ahead of president-elect's swearing-in

Russian court jails four in 2018 Argentine embassy luggage cocaine case

Ecuador's president declares state of emergency over drug violence

Rosario drug gang leader given 22-year jail term in seventh trial

Aníbal Fernández hints at measures to tackle drug violence surge in Rosario

Colombia's illicit coca economy helps communities thrive

Life in the crossfire of Venezuela's slums

Colombia militant jailed for 28 years for Ecuador press murders

At least 25 killed in police drug raid in Rio slum, says Brazilian media

Crime spirals out of control in troubled Rosario

United Nations condemns spike in Colombia 'massacres'

Economy Minister Martín Guzmán resigns from government

Guzmán resigns as coalition divisions grow

Cristina achieves her goal: sacking Alberto's economic team

Paraguay president: Crew member of grounded plane ‘changed face’ in Cuba

Miguel Etchecolatz, unrepentant dictatorship-era torturer and killer, dies at 93

Recuperándose de una operación, Fernando Iglesias también "fue visitado por el Presidente"

Jair Bolsonaro probó alfajores argentinos y eligió su favorito: "Muy bueno, Viva Argentina"

Jorge Asís: "El presidente malherido se resiste a consultar a la señora vicepresidenta"

Razones del portazo: Alberto Fernández se habría negado a terminar con el manejo K de Energía

De Massa a Melconian: los nombres en danza para reemplazar a Guzmán